Apparatus for delivering material in ropy form



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I. E, PALMER. APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING'MATERIAL IN ROPY FORM.

No. 402,274. Patented Apr. 30, 1889.

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APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING MATERIAL IN ROPY FORM. No. 402.274. 7 Patented Apr. 30, 1889.

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ISAAC PALMER, OF MIDDLETOW'N, CONNECTICUT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,274, dated April 30, 1889.

Application filed July 2, 1887- To all whomit may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC E. PALMER, of Middletowm'in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Delivering Material in Ropy Form, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe in detail an apparatus for delivering material embodying my improve set screws c ment, and then in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front or face view of a delivery apparatus embraced in my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, looking from the left hand of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation upon about the plane of the dotted line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modification. showing an apparatus embodying the invention.

Similar letters of reference designate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

I will first describe the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. As here represented the frame-work of the apparatus consists of hangers A, constituting a carriage, the lower portions of which consist of rods or tubes A, which may be securely clamped at a in the hangers A.

B designates a laying device, which consists, as here shown, of ablade or fan extending between the hangers and having journals 1) at about the middle of its width. This blade or fan receives a continuous rotary motion upon its journals, which are fitted to bearings 1) upon sleeves b which may be adjusted upward and downward upon the rods or tubes A, and secured in position by setscrews 19 to suit blades of different width.

I have also represented two drawing or supporting rolls, 0 0, arranged one above another, and the journals of which are fitted to bearings c, which are themselves supported by yokes formed upon sleeves c, which may be adjusted upward and downward upon the rods A and secured in desired position by I have here represented the two rolls 0 O as geared together by spurwheels 0 and by the friction which the rolls exert upon the ropy material they tend to pull or draw it forward and feed it downward point out the novel features Fig. 5 is an end view Serial No. 243,204. (No model.)

across the blade or fan B, and the rotary 1notion of this blade or fan lays the material in layers or folds, one on another, and of alength proportionate to the range of swinging movement of the fan or blade. I have here repre sented a chain-wheel, 0 upon the journal of the lower roll, 0, and by a chain belt or other means of communication power maybe transmitted from an outside source to the roll 0', and through the wheels 0 to the roll 0. From to the fan or blade B, which constitutes the laying device, by means of a chain orother belt, 17*, passing over wheels b b The function of the laying device B and the apparatus, so far as described, is not essentially different from delivery devices which are employed for laying in folds a continuous fabric which has been spread to its full width; but my apparatus is designed for delivering material in ropy form and in layers or folds, which are delivered one on another and also side by side throughout a considerable area. with the layingdevice, as B, a traverse motion, which I will now describe, or which is the equivalent of that described, and which serves to traverse the material in ropy form backward and forward throughout any desired portion of the length of the fan or blade B and the rolls 0 O, and in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the fan or blade B.

The traverse motion here represented comprises a guide-eye, (Z, which is supported in a suitable carriage, D, and this carriage is adapted to be reciprocated along a support, channel, or track. In the present example of my invention I have shown the carriage D as comprising wheels or rollers d (1 there being here shown two rollers or wheels, (1', and a single roller or wheel, (1 and a channel or track, E, which is shown as the support for the carriage D, and has at top and bottom longitudinal grooves e, which are here represented as V-shaped and to which the Wheels or rollers d d are fitted. The wheels 66 engage the lower groove, 2, and thewheel (Z engages the upper groove, thereby holding the carriage D in proper vertical position and maintaining the guide-eye (Z at its proper the roll 0' rotary motion may be transmitted angle. It will be seen that the carriage D,

with its guide-eye (l and rollers (1 (1 if rollers be employed in lieu of slides, may be reciproeated along the track or support E, and

as a means for imparting such reciprocating motion I have here shown an endless chain or carrier, F, which is mounted upon suitable supporting wheels or pulleys, f f in the line of the track or support E, and which has a rod-connection, as D, with the carriage D. The gearing which I have here represented for imparting progressive motion to the chain or carrier F consists of a worm, f upon the journal of the upper supporting-roller, C, and engaging a worm-wheel, f secured upon a stem or short shaft, f which has fixed upon it the chain-supporting wheel, f and this short shaft f is journaled in a suitable bearing, f upon the hanger A.

It will be observed that through the rod D a suitable reciprocating motion will be transmitted to the guide-carriage D from the c011- tinuous progressive motion of the chain or carrier F, and it is obvious that by varying the length of the rod D or substituting therefor one longer or shorter therange of movement of the carriage D and the guide-eye d will be variedthat is to say, by substituting a longer rod D for that here shown the carriage D will have a greater movement toward the right hand of Fig. 1 than it now has, and will terminate its movement toward the left hand of Fig.1 and at a greater distance from the lefthand end of the rolls 0 C than it now does.

It will be observed that the length or range of movement of the carriage D is equal to the distance from the center of the chain F as it rounds the wheel f to its center as it rounds the wheel f, and consequently by lengthening or shortening the chain 1 can vary this distance, and therefore not only change the length of movement of the carriage D, but change the position of its movement by lengthening or shortening the rod D. I have shown the supporting-wheel f as on a bridge, f which may be secured by a bolt, 3, in each end in any one of the holes 8, which in their distance apart equal the length of the chainlinks, and one or a number of chain-links may be taken out or replaced, as described.

The traverse motion which is imparted to the carriage D in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the laying device B and parallel with the length of the rolls 0 C will cause the layers or folds of ropy material to be laid or deposited side by side throughout a considerable area, and will therefore produce a result which can only be obtained by the combination, with a laying device, of a traverse motion for reciprocating the material in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of said laying device.

In Fig. 4 the hangers A have pivoted to them at a a swinging frame, B, which has journaled in it drawing or supporting rolls O C, and which has journaled at or near its extremity a pair of drawing-rolls, 0 between which the ropy material is to be conducted. To the swinging frame B, which is usually termed a horse-head, motion is transmitted by a rod, B, from a crank-arm, B upon a shaft, B journaled in the hangers A, and to which motion is transmitted by a chain or other belt, g, passing over a wheel, g, upon the pivotal shaft a to a wheel, g upon the shaft B The pivotal shaft to may have upon it the driving pulley or wheel, and not only does it, through the belt or chain g, transmit motion to the shaft B but through the belt or chain g it transmits motion to the drawing-rolls C at the extremity of the swinging frame. The belt or chain g may be deflected over suitable wheels upon the journals of the rolls 0 G, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, and thus transmit motion to the said rollers. The guide-eye d is secured upon the carriage D, which has a suitable support or track, E, wherein it is reciprocated, and which is constructed and operated like that before described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and The form of laying device here shown I consider in some respects preferable to the fan or blade B shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, because by the fan or blade 13 the material is laid in folds which are equal in length to but half the width of the fan, while with the horse-head shown in Fig. i the length of the layers or folds is equal to the entire swinging move ment of the horse-head.

In Fig. 5 the hangers A correspond to that shown in Fig. 4, save that they constitute a carriage which is provided with wheels or rollers 72, adapted to run upon tracks or ways It in a direction parallel with the plane of movement of the swinging frame or horsehead 13. Upon this carriage A may be a locking-lever, I, which is fulcrumed at i, and which may be engaged at the upper end with any one of several locking-notches, t", such as are illustrated. The lever I, as shown, is in engagement with one such locking-notch i, and after, by the swinging laying device 13, a pile of material has been deposited below the present position of the apparatus the lockinglever I may be moved out of engagement with the notch t" and the apparatus may be shifted along the track h until the lever I can be engaged with one of the other notches i, and

another pile of material can then be deposited by the apparatus in this way and by shifting the delivery apparatus along the tracks or ways 7L.

In order to impart motion to the delivery apparatus when mounted upon tracks or ways h, so as to provide for its movement, I have represented an endless chain or belt, J, which passes over wheels J on the apparatus, and thence downward under a wheel concentric with the pivotal shaft to, on which the swinging frame B is hung. The endless belt or chain J passes around wheels j, which are journaled in suitable fixed hangers, j, and concentric with one of the wheels 7' is a pulley, 3' which may receive a driving-belt from an outside source.

It will therefore be seen that whatever position the delivery apparatus may occupy along the tracks or ways h it Will still receive motion from the belt or chain J. I have here shown but a-single drawing or supporting roll 0 below the pivot a of the swinging frame B, and by a chain orbelt, 9 motion is transmitted from awheel concentric with the pivotal shaft a to one of the rollers 0 which are at the lower extremity of the frame B, and this chain or belt 9 passes partly around a wheel concentric with the drawing or supp ort ing roll 0. The shaft 13, on which is the crank-arm B that operates the swinging frame B, through the rod B, is rotated by a chain or belt, g, and a pulley, 9 as before described.

Although in Figs. 1,2, 3, and 4 the laying devices are not shown. supported upon rails h, upon which they may be moved along, it

is of course to be understood that in all cases the devices are to be so supported.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a laying device for laying ropy material in folds or layers throughout its range of movement, of a carriage sup- I. E. PALMER.

WVitnesses C. HALL, FREDK. HAYNES. 

